Alessandra Nunziante (Turin, 1991) is an Italian visual artist and writer whose practice moves between painting and storytelling, building a language around identity, fragility and transformation. The author of three published novels, she has been recognised with the Golden Palm for Visual Arts (Monte Carlo) and the Berlin City Prize, has exhibited in Paris, Rome and Turin, and in 2026–27 takes part in the international exhibition at the CICA Museum in South Korea. Her work has been featured by Artribune, Corriere, La Stampa, Exibart, RAI and Mondadori. At the core of her practice is Deformazioni, an ongoing research project that treats imperfection as an authentic and generative language — through essential forms and the tension between balance and alteration.

Artist Statement:

“My research originates from a bone deformation in my left arm, caused by a benign tumour. From this physical transformation emerged the need to investigate deformity as a human condition.”

My work focuses on the distortions we carry within ourselves and those we recognise in the external world. Through bold, vibrant and playful colours I invite the viewer into a more open and relaxed space — where imperfection becomes the primary language, transforming into an active, conscious and shared presence.

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CERISE OF THE SCARLET RAIN
Oil on cotton fabric · 40×40cm · 2026
Sweetness worn as armour. Round wing-cases, antennae of cherries, a body dotted like a small creature that has decided to be looked at.

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CEPHALIA OF THE AMBER DEEP
Oil on cotton fabric · 40×40cm · 2026
Two dark crowns coil like limbs in an amber tide. The gaze is two pools of ink a creature of the depths surfacing without fear.

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MELISENDA OF THE AZURE SKY
Oil on cotton fabric · 40×40cm · 2026
A sovereign gaze.
Melisenda emerges from saturated blue as an autonomous presence, neither asking nor explaining.

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INNER GAZE
Oil on cotton fabric · 100×100cm · 2022
The first tear. An introspective figure that turns the gaze inward, asking not what is seen, but who is doing the seeing

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CLOUD OF FIRE
Oil on cotton fabric · 100×100cm · 2022
Fire as origin, not destruction. The warm tones of deformation become generative, a figure in the act of becoming.

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GENTLE BREEZE
Oil on cotton fabric · 100×100cm · 2023
The green gaze cuts through. What seems soft in the title is sharp on the canvas, transformation rarely announces itself.

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LUXURIA
Oil on cotton fabric · 100×100 cm · 2023
Desire rendered through distortion, the fabric, the skin, the posture all slightly wrong, all entirely honest.

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CULTURE
Oil on cotton fabric · 100×100 cm · 2023
The figure carries its context like a second skin. Culture deforms and marks the face before the face can speak.

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FELINE VISION
Oil on cotton fabric · 80×80cm · 2025
Stillness as power. The feline inhabits the frame with geometric precision, holding the tension between wildness and grace.

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CHIEN À LA TOUCHE ROUGE
Oil on cotton fabric · 90×70cm · 2026
The animal enters the canvas with the same dignity as the human figure. The red touch, a wound, a mark, a choice.

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